35thstreetswarm

I don't believe you actually believe these things. I think people use this board for different reasons, and that you have a tendency to use the board in a very particular way. Ask yourself if it's fair to everyone else here -- especially right now -- for you to use it in the way you do.

Yeah, we now know that the Sox were a couple of devastating injuries away from...first place in the division. I think this season has showed us that a video game-worthy lineup is its own type of depth. And I'm not sure what the difference is between starting pitching being good and being a "blessing," but I think I'll take either one.

Yeah, you should be able to position it so you can slide down the bench with the bar resting on safety bars above your upper chest/neck. I always have them set a little higher myself because my physiology and shoulder injury history keeps me from going all the way to touching the bar to my chest anyway. (Yeah, that's right I'm "cheating" - another macho gym-ism I don't care about anymore).

Too much. It’s not like our guys are lost for the season. It hurts, but I think we just soldier on and wait for the reinforcements to start to arrive later in the Summer.

That’s what I keep trying to remember. REALLY bad injury luck would be losing your guys to injury in September, not March, April, May, and June. It sucks, but if we continue to ride the pitching and tread water we still have the chance to go into October at full strength.

Maybe the only good thing to come from last night’s loss

Yep, against the Rangers, too. They then get the honor of being thrown out of the stadium...while bandwagoners cheer and die-hards shake their heads and avoid eye contact out of shame for the offenders.

Thank you. The worst ever was when I was wearing a Sox jersey and a late '80s "C" Sox hat and some idiots got in my face telling me to "pick a side" (thinking it was a Cubs hat). There are some idiots out there.

People get on me for my Birmingham Barons hat, thinking it's a Tigers hat. Then again, the entire stadium now seems to chant "throw it back" every time the opposition hits a home run, so I am close to giving up on the in-person fan population. ?

Was just going to respond with the same thought. There's no way these prices are right. This is one of those China knockoff stores with official-sounding names. Got my son a football jersey from one of these last year and the product was total garbage (the numbers were almost comically off-center). You can find the baby blue jersey in the store at the stadium and at Grandstand, though, but an authentic will cost you more than double this.

Generally authentics are significantly different (and the usual price difference much more than $10). Heavier/higher quality fabric, stich-on vs. iron-on letters and numbers, front numbers instead of blank fronts. It's hard to tell with these throwbacks, and I'm skeptical the difference is that great if the price span is so small, but I'd probably take a chance and order authentic.

Yes, the grays in particular are really cool (and really rare).

I like assuming I'm correct about something at the time I form the opinion then disregarding all subsequent evidence disproving my conclusion as anomalous and unforeseeable.

Yes, we should definitely find some way to embed trolling in literally every post because that's what this site is lacking

Can't see the picture you embedded for some reason but the '69s are one of the coolest (and least commonly seen/worn) designs by far.

Yankees now 3 games over 500 and in 4th in the AL East but apparently better than the white sox Right, maybe they can enjoy their superiority over the Sox while watching them in the playoffs from home? Seriously, this particular form of flawed logic is one of my biggest pet peeves and it shows up every year. Using a tiny regular season sample size against some hand-picked "good team" as your only valid measuring stick is nonsense. Won't belabor the many reasons why, which should be obvious. It's usually a tactic used by fans of opposing teams and other dedicated haters clinging to one way to diminish the accomplishments of a team that's harder and harder to criticize based on more reliable measures. Weird to see it used on a fan board, but I shouldn't be surprised. Reminds me of a friend I had in 2005 whose refrain throughout the season was "talk to me when your Sox can beat the Angels." The Angels played the Sox tough in the regular season, including dominating them in a sweep in Chicago in September. We all know how that movie ended.

Therein lies joke

Surprised nobody's mentioned that we're at the 60 game mark: with 37 wins, two more than last year. It seemed the Twins' one extra win (36-24) entitled them to quite a bit of "the Twins are the class of the division/the division goes through the champs" deference from some posters this offseason. Pretty humbling that we've bested the mark of even those great champions.

Nice to be on the other side if one of those—Jays blew so many opportunities you just knew it would come back to bite them. Quality W.

Well you've never been heckled by me.

No problems here. I'm all for heckling. Lost art.

I remember seeing Yankees fans strutting around as the game concluded taking pictures together and gloating, thinking wistfully "what must it be like to KNOW you're going to the playoffs and have a good shot of winning it all?" Little did I know we would win one before they would...and pretty damn soon.

Ha. I was at that game.

Somebody should tell them about their great history. I heard somewhere that that will help them win games this year. In all seriousness, I find this hard to believe. They're talented and a hot week or two away from being right back in the divisional race, let alone wildcard.

Yeah, they're definitely...blue? After a dalliance with interesting (Marlins, Sox) it looks like the City Connect project has made a swift return to boring. And who has real affinity for "Wrigleyville"? It's a stretch to call it a neighborhood. Nobody "reps" Wrigleyville. It's like the Bears wearing a jersey that says "Museum Campus."